“…Second, the farther a country is from the equator, the more likely it is to have prominent property rights and high-quality institutions relevant to pollution levels. Therefore, countries with less corruption have lower emission levels, both in terms of CO2 (Hall and Jones, 1999;Cole, 2007;Biswas et al, 2012;Arminen and Menegaki, 2019) and SO2 (Cole, 2007;Leitão, 2010;Biswas et al, 2012), and better overall environmental performance (Lisciandra and Migliardo, 2017). To a large extent, corruption also affects the quality of national health systems.…”